Military Watch Magazine.com – Aug 9, 2026
Russia is reportedly preparing to receive between 30,000 and 50,000 additional North Korean military personnel, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, potentially representing a dramatic expansion of Pyongyang’s military involvement in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War. The president stated that the planned deployment had evolved considerably from earlier discussions involving only hundreds or thousands of North Korean personnel, with a a decision having been made to bring tens of thousands of additional personnel to Russia to perform military tasks and study modern warfare techniques.
The figure has not been independently confirmed, and has been regarded by analysts either as a Ukrainian intelligence-based assessment, or as part of efforts to press countries in the Western world for greater support for Ukraine’s war effort.
Experience gained in Russia is expected to improve North Korean units’ drone reconnaissance and strike operations and counter-drone warfare capabilities, as well as their ability to operate under persistent aerial surveillance, which are distinctive features of the conflict. While North Korean artillery units are reported to be significantly more capable than their Russian counterparts, and gained limited combat experience supporting Syrian counterinsurgency efforts in the 2010s, the central role which artillery has played in the Ukrainian theatre, and the way unmanned aircraft have changed operations, could make experience invaluable.
Even if not deployed on a large scale for combat operations, the presence of North Korean forces in Russia could play a major role in allowing Russia to accelerate its advances in the Ukrainian theatre. Personnel could be stationed to guard Russian borders across multiple regions both near Ukraine, and potentially in its Western and Far Eastern regions, allowing personnel stationed there to be deployed for frontline combat operations in greater numbers. Should they be deployed for combat operations, the reported far higher training standard of North Korean personnel relative to their Russian counterparts, is expected to make them significantly more potent and effective.
In November 2025 the South Korean National Intelligence Service reported that nearly 10,000 North Korean personnel were already stationed near the Russian–Ukrainian border for guard duties, while an additional 1,000 combat engineers are providing support with mine clearance operations. Beyond military personnel, reports emerged in 2025 that 5,000 North Korean industrial workers were being dispatched to help increase output at the Alabuga Factory where Russia produces Geran-2 drones. Other reports of North Korean workers being dispatched to support Russia’s economy, including both civilian and military industries, have been widespread, with the country’s high education standards making its workers highly prized, and favoured over Central Asian workers.
President Zelensky previously reported in late July that North Korea was preparing to send as many as 30,000 additional personnel to Russia, and g to supply additional ballistic missile launchers. Due to the sharp contraction both of Russia’s defence sector and of its ground forces in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s disintegration, it not only fields mortar and artillery systems in just a fraction of the numbers that North Korea does, but is also estimated to have much lower productive capacities, resulting in a high reliance on its neighbour’s support. North Korea was by the end of 2024 estimated to have dispatched over 6 million artillery rounds to Russia.
Eh? They’ve been fighting IN the ukraine war for years. Putin has made speeches “thanking” the fat slob who dictates in north korea for just that!
> The figure has not been independently confirmed
How very “AI”. Anything you “say” to “AI” gets the same response. To be “independently confirmed”, wikipedophile has to write it up so the BBC can cut and paste it.
Zelensky, jew shnorrer ! we all wish
YOU DEAD !
North Koreans come free us from our
pervert traitorous massinvader importers !
TRUMP BANS VACCINES
onald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for fewer childhood vaccines in the US.
The US president’s order also demands that the combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine be separated into three individual shots.
Mr Trump said limiting the inoculation schedule to 11 immunisations would give US children “gold-standard” protection and align the country with peer nations that recommend fewer shots. The order advances a long-standing goal of Robert F Kennedy Jr, the anti-vaccine health secretary who has promoted the alleged link between inoculations and autism that drug company scientists have repeatedly debunked.
During a signing ceremony at the White House, the president said: “Effective immediately, my administration is recognising gold-standard childhood vaccine recommendations for only 11 core vaccinations against the most serious and dangerous diseases, along with the MMR, which hopefully will be split up.”
Repeatedly citing the growing number of autism diagnoses, Mr Trump added: “There are some groups that have virtually no problem with autism. They’re groups that aren’t big into the world of vaccines, so there is something wrong.”
MIGRANTS
Jeremy Clarkson thinks the solution to stopping the boats is simple – show illegal migrants the worst things about the UK.
The 66-year-old Clarkson’s Farm presenter said stopping migrants crossing the Channel from France is as simple,
show them the amount of potholes
crap mobile phone coverage”.
and pictures of Boy George
He added: “[Show them] that children with suspected meningitis are forced to wait five hours in A&E before they can see a doctor.”
and they be forced to watch Vanessa Feltz on BBC
Further arrests made following anti-immigration disorder in Thetford
Story by Sam Russell
Four more arrests have been made after anti-immigration disorder in Norfolk, including a teenager being held on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker.
Tensions flared in Thetford last week when homes linked to asylum seekers were targeted and police officers were assaulted during three nights of unrest. Norfolk Police turned on their own people and said officers were “subjected to significant aggression” in Thetford on Wednesday, including officers being hit with a rock, bitten and spat at.
The force said on Tuesday that a teenage boy was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker on Wednesday, 5 August. He remains in custody.
A man in his 40s was arrested and bailed on suspicion of a public order offence, inciting racial hatred and obstructing a highway on 4 August.
Tensions flared in Thetford, Norfolk, last week when homes linked to asylum seekers were targeted and police officers were assaulted during three nights of unrest (PA Wire)
Tensions flared in Thetford, Norfolk, last week when A migrant in his 20s was arrested and bailed on suspicion of a public order offence on 5 August.
Police said another migrant who was previously arrested on Sunday, appeared in court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to drugs offences.
Rodrigo Ramos, 26, of St Johns Way, Thetford, pleaded guilty at Norwich Magistrates’ Court to possession of cocaine with intent to supply and possession of cannabis, the force said.
Officers said Ramos was remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced at Norwich Crown Court on 14 September
Sum ting wong?
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Read a post years ago back when Kim Jong Il’s famine was happening where farmers from NK worked in far east Russia and planned on staying in Russia and not go back home, because Russia was freer and no famine. So will these NK troops do the same thing since the is a whole lot more freedom in Russia?